So, I am back in my candida diet groove. I don't eat sugar, fruit, dairy, wheat or most grains. Most of the time I don't even think about it, and I am finally at that point where the thought of those things makes me a little ill. This is a good place to be because it makes the mental game a lot easier.
I am losing weight, which, of course, is not the point. But it is always nice to not have to think about that, right? Great side affect to a horrible illness.
For the most part I am feeling great. This weekend I feel like crap because I made a super yummy chicken dinner that had a sauce made out of the half and half poured all over it ... I then I ate it the next morning for breakfast. Oops. Then I got obsessed with memory of cookies. I love cookies. They are all the only food that I struggle with not eating. And the think about a cookie is that it is a piece of sugar and wheat heaven. And it turns out it is basically impossible to create a gluten free/ sugar free cookie -- not to mention the fact that I am grain free ... not just gluten ... free. Basically, when it comes to cookies and most things that taste yummy after a big steak, I am out of luck. More steak please.
But a few weeks ago I found this amazing little cookie that is so yummy and so perfect and so grain free ... and so totally full of sugar. Straight white sugar. Love this cookies. They have peanut butter, sugar, eggs and chocolate chips. And they taste and feel like cookie heaven. So, I thought I would try to replace the sugar. No can do. I have wasted a lot of wonderfully good peanut butter trying to figure this out, and I am not capable. Two nights ago I replaced the sugar flavor with spevia and the sugar substance with oat flour. I couldn't even pick up the cookies. They crumbled in my hands and tasted like stevia ...
Tonight I tried Agave (which I can't have, but it is the principle of the thing at this point.) This cookies looked great but tasted like dried out globes of dough. Strange texture.
Long story longer, I fell of the candida cart and ate a (small) box of cookies from the bakery this afternoon. Couldn't help myself. A girl has to have cookies.
The Owner
A lady who loves babies, sustains womanhood, believes in yoga and USED to own a rock band. (She also craves adventure, questions everything, and isn't sure what she's doing most of the time.)
The Owner and Her Manager
Band Members in Random Order
My Little Man
Brandon Charles Fellow -- August 28, 2014
The Soul of our Honest Colorado Adventure
The Victorian: built in 1898, 2 bed, 1 bath, cardboard floors, bears for neighbors, no disposal, no heat, and it was all ours for 6 whole months!
Home Base -- Ouray, Colorado
Family Pic outside Ouray School. We'll miss this happy place!
The first Big Sister
Me and McKenna
Lizza Bizza Bo
Infertility's Common Thread
Follow the life of Baby McKenna
A record for her and us and you
The Fellow Family
Look Who's Here!
Jan. 2008
First steps, first teeth and turning 10 months all in one week!
Feb. 2008
Tim heats things up with the band. Full steam ahead!
March 2008
Quinn turns 1, gets a shinny new toy box, and fits into 2 year old clothes.
April 2008
Quinn gets a new outdoor hobby, Tim heads East for a month long tour, and I barf a lot when discovering i'm alergic to veggies after becoming a vegan. Short lived earthy Journey.
May 2008
Quinn finds the best part of the Phoenix Zoo, and we head all over the place for a lot of 60th birthdays.
June 2008
Quinn watches Elmo from the hospital for two days after a scary illness while Tim was touring with the Band in Japan.
July 2008
Quinn's all better but wants yet another pony ride at the Thanksgiving Point Farm.
August 2008
Party Time. We travel all month as a family and play with all the cousins
September 2008
Mom's back to work, Dad leaves on his last tour, but all the fun continues. And we make a baby ... before Tim leaves.
October 2008
The pink poodle return, Tim returns, Grammy and Counsin Kate visit, and it is all about it hit the fan!
November 2008
Avery comes home. Tim runs a race, and Grandma Jan leaves us at Thanksgiving with 7 jars of apple sause that only lastest a few days.
December 2008
We start selling our stuff so we can survive the Winter. But life is good and happy again, and I finally hit my second trimester.
December 2008 Part 2
Tim gets a job offer with Wells Fargo in Salt Lake two days before Christmas. Wahoo! We can eat. It's a Thanksgiving Miracle.
January 2009
We live it up with Daddy before he goes back to work! We eat out and spend all kinds of money!
Feb. 2009
We get used to Daddy's new schedule, but we keep enjoying a weekly night on the Town. Jill celebrates 11 years as a Mormon with our Family and Bridget's.
March 2009
Quinn turns 2!!
April 2009
Kristie Quinn gets happily banished to the basement when mom starts nesting and getting ready for Avery McKenna to join the band.
May 2009
Quinn and Mommy get a ton of time together. Quinn learns to use the potty, we go to a Temple dedication, and we hangout with Aunt Avery.
June 2009
Welcome Baby McKenna! We love you, baby!
July 2009
McKenna's Blessing and fist plane ride. Off to California and Arizona to visit Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Counsins
August 2009
Family Time, A trip to the Grand America Hotel, back to california and Quinn started Pre-School!!
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